Relating to or containing cholic acid, a component of bile.
From 'chol-' (bile) + '-alic' (relating to an acid). Cholic acid is a primary bile acid, and the suffix indicates the chemical or functional relationship to this compound.
Cholic acid is one of the few chemicals in your body that's ancient enough to have a Latin/Greek name—it's been doing the exact same job of digesting fats for millions of years of evolution.
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